Swimming is great exercise. However, it tends to be tougher to lose fat as compared to running, or other cardio sources. This is due to body position. Your heart and lungs don't have to work as hard when the body is in a horizontal position due to the lack of gravity working against the circ system. Hence, when you lie down your blood preasure seems to drop a few notches. When running or some other type of cardio when you are up-right, your body's circ system has to work against gravity and thus works harder. Not that swimming is a bad exercise for losing weigh, you just have to work harder to get your heart rate up to a suitable position as compared to an exercise when the body is up right. In regards to the comment on the water temp, this is a plus. The water has a far lower temp than the body so the body has to work harder to maintian its temp. Water tends to suck body temp down quite a bit faster than air due to its density and heat retaining properties. So factoring in both of these is just food fopr thought. Good luck!

^^ lol sounds like it makes sense to me. I guess it just comes down to what works for you. At 240ish running, is the biggest pain in the ass for me (I also f'ed up my knee on a 575 squat attempt in high school). Even if running does get the pounds off faster, I know that it is highly unlikely that I will stick to running 6-7 days a week.

Hey bro I was a swimmer in highschool and I can tell u this you can lose weight swimming if you do a lot of sprints with the freestyle stroke, butterfly will work the hell out of ur abbs and shoulders. Also make sure you warm up with like 10 to 20 laps to get ur muscles feelin good. If you do sprints you can lose a grip of weight dawg. Also you should get some hyperdrive 3.0 plus from alri and incororate that it will help u lose even more weight. I lost 34 pounds in 2 and a half months on that **** with doing swimming also

^^ lol sounds like it makes sense to me. I guess it just comes down to what works for you. At 240ish running, is the biggest pain in the ass for me (I also f'ed up my knee on a 575 squat attempt in high school). Even if running does get the pounds off faster, I know that it is highly unlikely that I will stick to running 6-7 days a week.

i cant run for **** on a treadmill try running on a elliptical its much easier on the knees i have a bad knee also and shin splints to boot running on the elliptical gives me a great work out and it doesnt aggravate either condition

Swimming is great exercise. However, it tends to be tougher to lose fat as compared to running, or other cardio sources. This is due to body position. Your heart and lungs don't have to work as hard when the body is in a horizontal position due to the lack of gravity working against the circ system. Hence, when you lie down your blood preasure seems to drop a few notches. When running or some other type of cardio when you are up-right, your body's circ system has to work against gravity and thus works harder. Not that swimming is a bad exercise for losing weigh, you just have to work harder to get your heart rate up to a suitable position as compared to an exercise when the body is up right. In regards to the comment on the water temp, this is a plus. The water has a far lower temp than the body so the body has to work harder to maintian its temp. Water tends to suck body temp down quite a bit faster than air due to its density and heat retaining properties. So factoring in both of these is just food fopr thought. Good luck!

I dont know about the whole "Your heart and lungs don't have to work as hard when the body is in a horizontal position due to the lack of gravity working against the circ system" this may be true however when running heart is only having to pump the most blood to the lower half of your body, making it work less compared to the fact that when you are swimming your heart is having to pump blood to all parts from your hands to your feet in order to keep up with the demands of all the muscles being used to propel yourself through the water. Just a thought thoe...

I know that swimming is great for cardio and overall conditioning however I heard that for fat loss its not good due to the cool water doesnt heat the body up enough to burn fat. IS this true???

Swimming is awesome cardio. Low impact but high impact on your fat loss. In terms of thermogenics your body has a harder time trying to heat you up than to cool you off. Cold is preferred for me due to that fact

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